Sounding toy



Patented Oct. II,1|898. V. SEKINGER.

SDUNDING TOY.

(Apphcatxon Bled Sept. 21, 1897 ooooooo UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

vIC'rOR sEKINeER, or JEANNETTE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SOUNDING TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 612,217, dated October 11, 1898.

Application liled September 2l, 1897. Serial No. 652,470. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, VICTOR SEKINGER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Jeannette, in the County of festmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sounding Toys, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein tO the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in musical toys, and has for its object to construct a toy which will produce a musicalsound and is designed especially to amuse children.

With the above and other objects in view the invention inally consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification and wherein like figures of reference indicate simi-- lar parts throughout both views, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of my improved toy. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the body portion, which is the half of a hollow sphere and is provided diametrically oppo site with lugs 2, to which is secured a cord 3; Said cord 3 is doubled and twisted, as shown in Fig. l, and engages and holds in position a bar 4, one end of which is somewhat heavier than the other. Said body portion is provided with a cut-away portion 5 to permit the bar to be operated.

The operation and construction are as follows: The cord is secured to the lugs 2, when the bar 4 is placed between the two parts of the cord and is twisted until a tension is produced to hold the bar normally against the edge of the body portion and to produce a sound. One end of the bar is forced down into the cut-away portion 5 and then released.

Vhen the bar 4 comes in contact with the body portion, a sound is produced.

The hollow hemispherical wooden body is peculiarly adapted to reinforce and make resonant the sounds caused by impact of the bar. Furthermore, the structure is the strongest possible, because the integral lugs take the strain of the twisted string and are themselves supported and braced apart by the two arcs formed by the edges of the hemispherical body,which edges, it will be seen, lie substantially in the plane of the strain.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a musical instrument consisting of a hollow hemispherical wooden body portion and provided with a Cut-away portion in the edge of one side, lugs formed integral with said body portion and being diametrically opposite each other, a twisted cord engaging said lugs and carrying a bar, said cord normally holding the bar in engagement with the edge of the body portion, and to return the same when one end is depressed into the cutaway portion, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VICTOR SEKINGER.

Witnesses:

JOHN NOLAND,

GEO. B. PARKER. 

